“The Super League is not football,” UEFA sources said Thursday at a meeting in Buenos Aires with a small group of journalists from the South American country and international media, including EFE.
“We are here to talk about football and the Superliga is not football,” said the sources, who, however, congratulated the German Bernd Reichart for his appointment as the new general director.
According to the sources, the Super League sent “a letter” to Aleksander Ceferin, president of UEFA, but he has not read it yet, so they could not detail the content of the text, although they understood that it was some attempt to ” approach”.
Ceferin, in Argentina
The Slovenian leader, head of European football, is visiting Argentina, where, among other meetings, he met with the president of the Argentine Football Association (AFA), Claudio Tapia, and had the ‘luxury’ of a rally in moments during training with River Plate coach Marcelo Gallardo.
The president of the South American Football Confederation, Alejandro Domínguez, and the president of the Uruguayan Football Association (AUF), Ignacio Alonso, are also visiting Buenos Aires.
This Wednesday was the news that German Bernd Reichart, a sports and media executive and until recently CEO of RTL Deutschland Group, has been appointed CEO of the Super League by the company in charge of helping to create it, A22 Sports Management.
Earrings of justice in Europe
European justice must rule -hopefully in 2023- whether or not there is a UEFA monopoly, which could allow the definitive creation of a Super League.
Reichart, 48, will focus on the overall structural and financial aspects of the possible new competition.
Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus are the three clubs that continue to support the Super League project in the context of the ongoing legal process at the Court of Justice of the European Union on the legality, according to competition law, of UEFA’s current monopoly on European club competitions.
The company A22 Sports Management is a co-plaintiff in the proceedings.
Source: La Verdad
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